And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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What? These guys don't know how use a meter to see if the generator is backfeeding line voltage? I'm glad they are writing a check for property damage but what if it was running medical equipment.

 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Fireworks for fishing? Sounds fishy to me. :eek:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/WS6a8867c9a3106bc57421cd4e.html
One person was killed and two others remain missing after an explosion occurred at a single-story courtyard in Linyi, Shandong province, on Friday afternoon.

The explosion took place at 3:38 pm in Wangqiao community, Yihe New Area, according to a statement from local authorities. A joint task force comprising public security, fire, emergency response, housing and urban-rural development departments was immediately established and dispatched to the scene for emergency rescue operations.

As of now, one person has been confirmed dead, two are missing, and the other injured individuals have been sent to hospitals for treatment and are in non-life-threatening conditions. Search and rescue operations at the site are still ongoing.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the explosion was caused by the illegal storage of explosive materials used for fishing by a tenant of the courtyard whose surname is Wang.
Some local video from a anti-CCP channel. YMMV on their biased conclusions too.

I've been (watched while others did it) blast fishing with hand grenades and TNT overseas. The whole house must have been full to do that sort of damage.
 
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joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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From LinkedIn:


Gino Franceschini was half an inch too short to become a New York City firefighter in 1941. The requirement was 5'7" inches. Gino was 5'6" and a half. Most people would’ve shrugged and said “Guess it wasn’t meant to be.” Not Gino, he built his own neck stretcher. He practiced spine-stretching exercises for months. Even had a custom bed made.

And eventually, he showed up to the Civil Service Commission on a stretcher, fully relaxed, where they measured him at 5 feet 7 and one-sixteenth inches.

He passed. Got the job. Became a fireman.


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WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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There's absolutely no magic or mystery here -- they guy simply makes a misleading statement by using the phrase "your drink" and "my drink" in an ambiguous way. He leads people into thinking that fluid from the cold source comes out hotter than the hot source, and, conversely, that the fluid from the hot source comes out colder than the cold source. That's not the case, as everything he does shows. The fluid from the cold source simply comes out hotter than the fluid from the hot source comes out. But so what? The limiting factor isn't the point at which the two fluids come out -- they aren't in thermal contact there. The cold fluid is in thermal contact with the hot source at the point it comes out and the hot fluid is in thermal contact with the cold source. So the limits are that the temperatures swap. Imagine just taking the fluid from the cold source and sending it through a coil of copper tube emersed in the hot liquid and doing the same with the hot liquid sending it through a coil in the cold water. The you would expect the fluid coming out of each tube to approach the temperature of the other source.
 
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